Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Several nights ago I dreamed that the good Lord touched me on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, you'll be the Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. What's more, you'll be elected.' I told Stu Symington about my dream. 'Funny thing,' said Stu, 'I had exactly the same dream about myself.' We both told our dreams to Lyndon Johnson. Said Lyndon: 'That's funny-for the life of me I can't remember tapping either of you boys...
...Queen's loyal subjects in Bermuda, certainly the oldest and quite possibly the stuffiest colony in the whole glamorous, dwindling British Empire. A gleaming, 25-ship fleet of the British and Canadian navies lay at anchor in Hamilton Harbor, and no less a personage than the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Selkirk, flew in to observe the joint maneuvers. Next day the representatives of empire received an editorial greeting from the daily Mid-Ocean News, which publishes most official notices and bears the proud subtitle of Colonial Government Gazette. The general effect of this journalistic salute...
...Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 31, heir to the 300-year-old earldom of Airlie, and Lady Ogilvy, 25, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan: their third child, first son; in London...
...trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct. None loved a lord more dearly than Ouida, and, mounted on the plush Pegasus of her imagination, she wrote to hounds with the best of them. She was a hopeless romantic-but she had the sense to know it. "I do not object to realism in fiction," she wrote, "but the passion flower is as real as the potato...
...organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising and to round up big-name speakers, including Billy Graham. "We want the best of everything on this program," says Missionary Jackson. "After all, it's the biggest city in the world, and the Lord deserves the best...